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Ooof! 🤑 They look good though.

Any recommendations for a pedalboard with hard case? I'm eyeing up the Boss BCB 90X £169 is a bit steep but it looks to be roughly the size I want, tough, has integrated in/outs, PSU, cable routing, and the pedals/pedalboard stay in the case (i.e. it isn't just a case that holds a pedalboard that then gets taken out), fill it with Boss compact pedals and it feels like they'd survive the apocolypse. Alternatives seem to be things like the the Rockboard Quad with flightcase, but that is £229 and the pedalboard needs taking out of the flightcase and no PSU or in/out, and there are the more budget Tourtech and Stagg hard-cases, get what you pay for though?

^^^ Thanks for these reviews. I think I'll hold back on getting one. My latest thinking is I'll go for a completely modular approach of individual pedals for each task (e.g. overdrive that I can set at unity, EQ pedal that I can choose to put in front or behind the overdrive, compressor I can move anywhere in the chain, Passive DI box that I can use both for Bass and for my keyboard etc).

Tempting. If it had an FX loop I'd definitely go for it.

Bass Simplifier is about MXR size, lots of features squeezed in.

I wouldn't say regret, but I've bought and sold more Basses and pedals than I can remember, if I added up the financial cost I'd probably have a different view on it being a regret! "Well son, the funny thing about regret is that it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something that you haven't done. And by the way, If you see your mom this weekend, will you be sure and tell her......"

FEA Opti-FET Compressor, Q-Strip, Creation Audio Grizzly Bass, One Control Crimson Red, can all be very subtle pedals but I found them all to add something that I can't quite replicate with multi-fx.

'I don't need pedals, just an expensive Amp with Drive, extensive EQ, Compressor, footswitch for boost/drive, and a few different Basses and Cabs to get the sounds I want'. 😉

I manage to shoehorn in some music talk in with just about anyone - whether they like it or not!

I get that in principle. But it doesn't incentivise quality, or innovation, or efficiency.

😀 I meant 'sucking' but my phone seems to prefer 'suckling'..... which I suppose also works!

Some very far left/rightwing thinkers and certain religious views might say all professional musicians are decadent parasites - suckling time and money away from productive society.

I play a 5 and rarely need anything below the E, I use the B string all the time though - playing further up the neck, and not using open E. Could get by with a 4 with a de-tuner but personally I prefer a 5.

Interesting Bass orientation too:

Everyone knows this one, but always worth a re-listen:

I like a Bass chorus to only apply the chorus effect to the higher range as it feels a bit sea-sick/wobbly to have it on lower range too. So Bass specific ones like the Boss CEB-3 (with low filter), and the EHX Bass Clone (with X-over switch) get my vote. The Boss is more subtle, EHX more full-on. I havent used the Chorusaurus but see that it has a blend so that should keep the low end from being too wobbly (I assume you can't stop it 'chorusing' the low end effected signal though). I dunno, £250 seems a lot.

I don't remember ever seriously thinking I'd be a famous professional musician, so I guess I realised very early on I won't 'make it'. Even if it was offered to me now I'd have to consider long-term job security, if I'd actually want fame, time away from home and family, and if it'd turn music into a stressful job rather than fun - it'd have to be quite a good offer for me to give up the day job and do it. There have been times where I have felt I have 'made it' as a musician: being paid, playing at a decent festival, radio play, being on fliers & posters, DJing in a big club on a Saturday night, signing a contract with a record label and releasing music. Things I still aspire to do to which I haven't given up on yet: Go on tour (even if just a series of gigs around the UK over the space of a week), have music released on vinyl, album or tour advert on a billboard, radio play from a big national station like Radio 1.

Red, Gold, Green has Rasta symbolism: https://www.rastaknowledge.com/2020/12/28/red-gold-and-green-what-do-these-colour-mean-in-rastafari/ but is often used to symbolise related stuff like Reggae and Jamaica.

Yeah, I don't think people are generally as easily offended as certain media likes to make people think.

I have no need (or £) for a new Bass, but with a red/tort scratchplate this would be a Reggae machine! https://bassbros.co.uk/product/2013-fender-japan-jb-62-qt-jazz-bass-reissue-mij/ .......although nowadays, seeing as I'm no Rasta, it might just be seen as cultural appropriation?!? I've been listening to this a lot through this recent heatwave:

Reminds me of this:

Sennheiser HD 25 for me too, (they are nearly 30 years old, a bit like Triggers broom though!).

Fat Freddy and the Queens might be after some of this. https://www.lewesconclub.com/events/fat-freddie-and-the-queens/ .......I don't know if they are any good as a tibute band, but as far as tribute band names go they are top tier!

Thanks, I've since got an Ibanez EHB 1005 MS (so has a 35" B , down to a 33" G) > Boss GT 1000 Core (EQ, comporession etc) > Ashdown RM 500 > TecAmp 212. I don't know if it is the equipment, strings, playng technique, or a change in expectations, but I'm now happy with the sound and balanced tone across strings. I think it has a lot to do with expectations (I now kind of expect each string to have a different tone for the same note - that's part of the charm of playing a Bass instead of a Keyboard mimicking a Bass), and it helps to play at volume with a Band to stop me obsessing over small tone differences.

My Birmingham era was mid 90's - 2000 and it was a great place for clubs during that time: Q Club: Atomic Jam Pulse: Sundissential Branstons: Wobble Bonds: Miss Moneypenny's Bakers: Republica Subway City: House of God The Sanctuary: Godskitchen and Ultimate Orange (my claim to fame is I DJd at this in the main room) And various decent things at the Steering Wheel, Medicine Bar, and not so decent things at the Dome.